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Sunday, January 29, 2006

Orientation Visualizer

"AMS Visualizer is a logical graphical extension of th amstracker command-line tool. It displays a 3D image of a PowerBook 15 that appears to "hang" in space. Note that the PowerBook model is hardcoded, but it would be easy to make the image correspond to the physical machine the program is being run on. The orientation of the on-screen image is a real-time approximation of the computer's physical orientation. Thus, if you tilt the PowerBook left, the image will immediately tilt left; if you roll the PowerBook backwards, the image will roll backwards, and so on."